Improved device for sealing bottles, cans, sgc



UNITED STATES PATENT-i OrrionO MILLS B. ESBY, OF BHILADELPHIA, BENNSYLVANIA.l

'IMPROVED DEVIC FOR`SEALING BOTTLES, CANS, 80C.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No.v 17,783, dated July 14, 1857..

vegetables, Snc., therein by heat; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, Inaking a part of this specification, in which Figure lis a representation of the apparatus as applied tov a bottle for the purpose; and Fig. 2, perspective views of the two hooked slides which, when coupled together by a screw-bolt and jam-nut, constitute the clamp, like letters in the two figures indicating the saine parts.

The nature of my invention consists in constructing and adapting together two adjustably-sliding plate shaving hooked projections, so that by means of an attached thumb-screw and a jam-nut the said plates may be applied and adjusted over the mouth of a botlle or jar', Aand effectually prevent the cork from being forced out of the said bottle or jar by internal pressure.

In the drawings, A is the upper part of a bottle; B, the upper, and C the lower, sliding plate; D, the thumb-screw bolt; E, the jam-nut, and f f the four, projecting land hooked parts of the slides. The plate of the upper slide, B, has a slot, g, made through'it, and the lower vslide two or more through-holes h, into either of which the thumb-screw D is adapted to work, so that when the two slides are placed together and the thumb-screw inserted through the slot in the upper into the lower slide, they may be adjusted over'the mouth of a bottle or jar by hand in such a manner that the hooked ends of the `four downward projections f f may catch under the projecting lip or flange of the bottle or jar, and the thumb-screw D be screwed down into contact with the cork, and thus together serve the purpose of keeping the cork from being forced out by pressure from the inside of the vessel, when the jam-nut E is screwed down firmly against the upper plate, B, as seen in Fig. l.

rlhe Wh ole apparatus is made of metal, light, and so as to fit readily and adjustably together, and to the mouth and lips of the bottle or jar. n

In putting up77 succulent fruits, &c., in glass bottles and jars by the process which requires their subjection to the temperature at l least vof boiling water, it is necessary to have some mode of holding the cork within the mouth of the vessel during the expansion of its contents, but the wiring,77 cording,77 and other means heretofore used for this purpose are all more or less defective and troublesome, and also wasteful; hence a simple, easily-applied, and as easily-removed apparatus Vlike the present one, and which is, moreover,

capable of being repeatedly used for a long time for the purpose without getting out of order, is a device much required in the art. n

MILLS B. EsrY.

Witnesses:

BEN. MoRIsoN, J As. GLENDINNING. 

